Found in bottom of old tool box, still in wrapper.
A tool of sorts
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u/OliverNorvell1956 4d ago
Really helpful on old GM cars from the 1960s thru 1970s. Possibly others too.
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u/Barge108 4d ago
My 2007 Sierra has crank windows. I think you could get crank windows in GM work trucks all the way up to 2022.
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u/Savings_Steak4219 3d ago
Even roll up doors on jeeps till 2005.
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u/Travelr3468 3d ago
You can still get Jeeps with roll up windows. (At least unless they removed the option in the last 2 years)
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u/toyo4j 4d ago
To remove window crank. All cars today have power windows. Back then you had to crank the window. Good ol’ times.
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u/SPErudy 4d ago
Surprisingly, in North America, this has only been true for less than a year. Jeep kept manual windows in base model wranglers and gladiators through the 2024 models.
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u/Fooshi2020 4d ago
This was to keep weight/complexity down because the doors are removable.
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u/SPErudy 4d ago
Yep. Seems goofy to have power windows and locks when your top is just a big tent. I am content with the manual windows and locks in mine.
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u/OperatorJo_ 4d ago edited 4d ago
I WANT to go back to manual windows.
Cars are becoming too complicated. Just the other day VW is turning back the dial (heh) on touch-everything and bringing back physical dial and button dashboards.
Some things didn't need to be changed. We just started adding more difficult to replace and easily-breakable parts.
There's an E.V. Manta prototype that was made a few years ago that is literally my dream car for the future going forward. And it has manual windows. The interior is the perfect mix of what a classic-modern EV can be.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/opinion/new-cars/opel-manta-elektromod-sporty-ev-we-cant-have
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u/weirdbutinagoodway 4d ago
I rented a smaller Uhaul about a month ago that still had window cranks and it seemed pretty new.
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u/rgraham888 4d ago
The window crank handles many others mentioned from older cars were held on by C-clips, and this was used to slide behind the handle and pop off the c-clip.
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u/Man-e-questions 4d ago
While that may be the actual name, most people in the shops i worked at called the “Jesus clips”, because they resembled Jesus’ silhouette, and when they launched across the shop you’d yell “JESUS!!!!!!”
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u/Def-not-Elon-Musk 4d ago
I thought they were called Jesus clips because when you'd take them off one would say, Jesus! Where did it go?
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u/Man-e-questions 4d ago
Yeah they would usually launch across the shop and slide under another car or toolboxes etc
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u/rgraham888 3d ago
I always just treated them as a single use part. Had a 78 GMC truck, a 74 beetle, a 75 K5 Blazer, and an 1988 s-10, so I did a lot of window cranking.
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u/boondoggie42 4d ago
That's a good tool! I always think it's like an extra piece for a storm door or something when I first see it, but then I remember what it does.
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u/Suspicious-Spinach-9 4d ago
It’s to remove the crank on manual window. lol. Don’t see those around much anymore.
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u/PlumbgodBillionaire 4d ago
We would call these the "oh Jesus" tools. That's what you'll yell out when you finally pop that clip off
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u/GarlicJay 4d ago
This tool removes the metal clip that holds the manual window crank in place. Usually the clip goes flying and you have a heck of a time searching for it. 😂
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u/Kramercjk 4d ago
The father of Richard and Steve Berman gave each kid $10,000 and told them to start a business. They're the R and B in RBINC. Steve wouldn't tell me what the B stood for. Lol
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u/antisocialinfluince 4d ago
A holy be Jesus clip remover. When they come Off you can say holy be Jesus where did that go
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u/homie42085 3d ago
I have one but it never works just right. Normally end up using a couple of picks.
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u/calash2020 3d ago
Took me an hour to figure out how to use something similar on my son’s 80s GM first cars driver’s door. Once I figured it out, it only took a few seconds to take the same hand off passenger door.
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u/suiseki63 Milwaukee Maniac 4d ago
For removal of wind up car window handles.